8:21 AM,
Apr. 29, 2012

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The restoration of the 1876-era train station promised two years ago is now hitting the express track, as crews started replacing the station's roof - the first of two phases of work scheduled for this year.

Crews have begun replacing the station roof with a historically accurate slate roof, which answered concerns brought up by historians almost two years ago about the building's future.

The historians - led by George Bowden, borough Historic Preservation chairman - publicly questioned whether NJ Transit was practicing demolition by neglect, by letting the station fall into disrepair. ...